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Sometimes sending a “cold” email, like cold-calling, can help your small business grow and form connections. -123RF

SMALL BUSINESS ESSENTIALS: Using cold emails to grow your business

Some investment choices are scarier than others. - 123RF

FINANCIAL FOCUS: Scary investment moves to avoid

Is a meal of steak and potatoes your favourite dish? Red meat actually can be good for the body. - Contributed

Facts about your favourite foods

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Nine enterprises receive funds by Atlantic Fisheries Fund

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Town of Bridgewater hires new CAO

This friendly scarecrow made of hay bales greeted many visitors to the Indian Garden Farms corn maze. - Lisa J. Ernst

A flourishing year for Indian Garden Farms

Tim Worthington, of Birdsall-Worthington Pottery Ltd., applies glaze to a pottery plate. - Lisa J. Ernst

Refiring the kilns at Birdsall-Worthington Pottery

Members of the 143 Construction Engineering Flight in Lunenburg County held an open house on Saturday, Sept. 29 at their Pine Grove headquarters to talk to the public about career opportunities with the Royal Canadian Air Force Reserve. - Dan Hennessey

Career options aplenty with air force reserves

Students from Saint Mary’s Sobey School of Business in Halifax recently attended the second annual South Shore Corporate tour held last month on Friday, Sept. 28. The tour, in co-operation with businesses along the South Shore, offers students a look into the area’s opportunities and to showcase the area’s rural lifestyle. - Contributed

South Shore student tour showcases rural Nova Scotia opportunity

Phaedra Charlton-Huskins (left) and Kathleen Quinlan, owners of Lunenburg’s Fiore Botanica Natural Skin Care, located at 255 Lincoln St., are celebrating Quinlan’s nomination as a finalist for the 2018 RBC Canadian Women Entrepreneur Awards. - Josh Healey

Fiore Botanica, founding partner, nominated for RBC Canadian Women ...

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The Municipal Activity and Recreation Facility Complex (MARC) recently held a leadership weekend on Sept. 7 to 9 for army and sea cadets across the South Shore.

Coming together for leadership

Published Sep 27, 2018 at 1:17 p.m.

Firefighters from several departments responded to a house fire in Tusket, Yarmouth County, on Nov. 11. KEITH DOUCET PHOTO

Smoke detector alerts occupants to fire that destroyed house in Tusket, Yarmouth County

Updated Nov 12, 2018 at 1:16 p.m.

The 10th annual CADDAC conference was held at Saint Mary’s University on Oct. 27 and 28 and strove to raise awareness about the lack of ADHD resources in the Maritimes. (CADDAC Twitter)

Nova Scotia ‘struggling’ with lack of ADHD resources

Updated Nov 13, 2018 at 9:41 a.m.

One of the pieces of the third-order Fresnel lens from the Cape Sable Lighthouse found in a warehouse on the Saint John, N.B., waterfront. (Nova Scotia Lighthouse Preservation Society)

Find will help Town of Clark’s Harbour celebrate its 100th anniversary

Updated Nov 13, 2018 at noon

Local

Rose (Rosie) Hupman, centre, celebrated her impending retirement with River Pub co-workers Annalise McMullen and Joey Richard. (Vernon Oickle)

Waitress retires after more than 30 years at the River Pub

Updated Nov 14, 2018 at 9:52 a.m.

Hank Middleton infuses Maritime flavour into new CD

Updated Nov 13, 2018 at noon

Guide and co-owner of Lunenburg Walking Tours, Ashlee Feener, stands in front of author James Bradford’s house in Lunenburg, the location of his children’s book The Tabby From Away Who Came To Stay. Bradford’s cat can often be spotted in the window. (Josh Healey)

Lunenburg Lit’s walking tour has it all

Updated Nov 13, 2018 at noon

Shahed Hendawi (left) plays with a wooden ball-and-cup toy, as Greta Mossman looks on at the Ross-Thomson House and Store Museum, located at 9 Charlotte Ln., during Shelburne’s 2016 Historic District Christmas Crawl. (Sue Deschene)

Unique gift ideas abound at Shelburne Christmas Crawl

Updated Nov 13, 2018 at 9:46 a.m.

Regional

Clean Annapolis River Project is hosting three community engagement sessions so residents may voice their ideas and concerns about the management of land and water resources in the Annapolis River watershed. The first meeting is Oct. 12 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Bridgetown fire hall.

Use, management of Annapolis River watershed focus of public meetings

Updated Oct 11, 2017 at 4:30 p.m.

Acadian pride was on display in colour, sound and enthusiasm during the 2018 National Acadian Day Tintamarre in Clare on Aug. 15. TINA COMEAU PHOTO

Clare, Argyle preparing bid to host 2024 Acadian congress

Updated Nov 09, 2018 at 10:42 a.m.

Mount Saint Vincent University signage.

MSVU faculty union votes to strike

Updated Nov 06, 2018 at 5:14 p.m.

Chris Frotten, who has worked as municipal clerk with the Municipality of Argyle, is the new CAO for the Municipality of Barrington.

Municipality of Barrington hires Chris Frotten as its new CAO

Published Nov 06, 2018 at 11:21 a.m.

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